|
Best SF Novel |
1 |
Redshirts
|
John Scalzi
|
2 |
2312
|
Kim Stanley Robinson
|
3 |
The Hydrogen Sonata
|
Iain M. Banks
|
4 |
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
|
Lois McMaster Bujold
|
5 |
Caliban's War
|
James S. A. Corey
|
6 |
Blue Remembered Earth
|
Alastair Reynolds
|
7 |
The Fractal Prince
|
Hannu Rajaniemi
|
8 |
The Rapture of the Nerds
|
Cory Doctorow
and
Charles Stross
|
9 |
Slow Apocalypse
|
John Varley
|
10 |
Intruder
|
C. J. Cherryh
|
11 |
Empty Space
|
M. John Harrison
|
12 |
Arctic Rising
|
Tobias S. Buckell
|
13 |
Bowl of Heaven
|
Gregory Benford
and
Larry Niven
|
14 |
Intrusion
|
Ken MacLeod
|
15 |
Angelmaker
|
Nick Harkaway
|
16 |
Any Day Now
|
Terry Bisson
|
17 |
Jack Glass
|
Adam Roberts
|
18 |
Rapture
|
Kameron Hurley
|
19 |
The Last Policeman
|
Ben H. Winters
|
20 |
The Eternal Flame
|
Greg Egan
|
21 |
The Fourth Wall
|
Walter Jon Williams
|
22 |
Fate of Worlds: Return from the Ringworld
|
Edward M. Lerner
and
Larry Niven
|
23 |
Ashes of Candesce
|
Karl Schroeder
|
24 |
Existence
|
David Brin
|
25 |
Lost Everything
|
Brian Francis Slattery
|
26 |
In the Mouth of the Whale
|
Paul McAuley
|
27 |
Turing & Burroughs
|
Rudy Rucker
|
|
Best Fantasy Novel |
1 |
The Apocalypse Codex
|
Charles Stross
|
2 |
The Drowning Girl
|
|
3 |
Hide Me Among the Graves
|
Tim Powers
|
4 |
The Killing Moon
|
N. K. Jemisin
|
5 |
Glamour in Glass
|
Mary Robinette Kowal
|
6 |
Red Country
|
Joe Abercrombie
|
7 |
Some Kind of Fairy Tale
|
Graham Joyce
|
8 |
The King's Blood
|
Daniel Abraham
|
9 |
Whispers Under Ground
|
Ben Aaronovitch
|
10 |
Worldsoul
|
Liz Williams
|
11 |
The Mirage
|
Matt Ruff
|
12 |
Sharps
|
K. J. Parker
|
13 |
And Blue Skies from Pain
|
Stina Leicht
|
14 |
Bullettime
|
Nick Mamatas
|
15 |
The Steel Seraglio
|
Linda Carey
and
Louise Carey
and
Mike Carey
|
16 |
The Troupe
|
Robert Jackson Bennett
|
17 |
Boneland
|
Alan Garner
|
18 |
Range of Ghosts
|
Elizabeth Bear
|
19 |
Crandolin
|
Anna Tambour
|
|
Best First Novel |
1 |
Throne of the Crescent Moon
|
Saladin Ahmed
|
2 |
Alif the Unseen
|
G. Willow Wilson
|
3 |
vN
|
Madeline Ashby
|
4 |
Seraphina
|
Rachel Hartman
|
5 |
The Games
|
Ted Kosmatka
|
6 |
Blackwood
|
Gwenda Bond
|
7 |
Rituals
|
Roz Kaveney
|
8 |
Goblin Secrets
|
William Alexander
|
9 |
Wide Open
|
Deborah Coates
|
10 |
The Snow Child
|
Eowyn Ivey
|
11 |
The Gathering Dark
|
Leigh Bardugo
|
12 |
Bad Glass
|
Richard E. Gropp
|
13 |
The Man from Primrose Lane
|
James Renner
|
14 |
Sanctum
|
Sarah Fine
|
|
Best Young Adult Book |
1 |
Railsea
|
|
2 |
The Drowned Cities
|
Paolo Bacigalupi
|
3 |
The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
|
Catherynne M. Valente
|
4 |
Dodger
|
Terry Pratchett
|
5 |
Pirate Cinema
|
Cory Doctorow
|
6 |
Be My Enemy
|
Ian McDonald
|
7 |
Sea Hearts
|
Margo Lanagan
|
8 |
Black Heart
|
Holly Black
|
9 |
Radiant Days
|
Elizabeth Hand
|
10 |
Apollo's Outcasts
|
Allen Steele
|
11 |
Zeuglodon
|
James P. Blaylock
|
12 |
The Chaos
|
Nalo Hopkinson
|
13 |
Bitterblue
|
Kristin Cashore
|
14 |
The Diviners
|
Libba Bray
|
15 |
The Raven Boys
|
Maggie Stiefvater
|
16 |
Days of Blood & Starlight
|
Laini Taylor
|
17 |
A Face Like Glass
|
Frances Hardinge
|
18 |
The Crown of Embers
|
Rae Carson
|
19 |
Team Human
|
Sarah Rees Brennan
and
Justine Larbalestier
|
20 |
Son
|
Lois Lowry
|
21 |
Every Day
|
David Levithan
|
|
Best Novella |
1 |
After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall
|
Nancy Kress
|
2 |
The Stars Do Not Lie
|
Jay Lake
|
3 |
The Boolean Gate
|
Walter Jon Williams
|
4 |
In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns
|
Elizabeth Bear
|
5 |
On a Red Station, Drifting
|
Aliette de Bodard
|
6 |
Gods of Risk
|
James S. A. Corey
|
7 |
Hand of Glory
|
Laird Barron
|
8 |
Murder Born
|
Robert Reed
|
9 |
Let Maps to Others
|
K. J. Parker
|
10 |
Eater-of-Bone
|
Robert Reed
|
11 |
Katabasis
|
Robert Reed
|
12 |
The Weight of History, the Lightness of the Future
|
Jay Lake
|
13 |
The Last Judgment
|
James Patrick Kelly
|
14 |
Twenty Lights to "The Land of Snow"
|
Michael Bishop
|
15 |
Sky
|
Kaaron Warren
|
16 |
Maze of Shadows
|
Fred Chappell
|
17 |
The Moon Belongs to Everyone
|
Michael Alexander
and
K. C. Ball
|
18 |
The Mongolian Book of the Dead
|
Alan Smale
|
|
Best Novelette |
1 |
The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi
|
Pat Cadigan
|
2 |
Faster Gun
|
Elizabeth Bear
|
3 |
Close Encounters
|
Andy Duncan
|
4 |
The Lady Astronaut of Mars
|
Mary Robinette Kowal
|
5 |
Fake Plastic Trees
|
|
6 |
The Wish Head
|
Jeffrey Ford
|
7 |
Significant Dust
|
Margo Lanagan
|
8 |
Fireborn
|
Robert Charles Wilson
|
9 |
The Sea of Trees
|
Rachel Swirsky
|
10 |
Arbeitskraft
|
Nick Mamatas
|
11 |
Holmes Sherlock: A Hwarhath Mystery
|
Eleanor Arnason
|
12 |
The Wreck of the "Charles Dexter Ward"
|
Elizabeth Bear
and
Sarah Monette
|
13 |
Troll Blood
|
Peter Dickinson
|
14 |
Bruce Springsteen
|
Paul McAuley
|
15 |
The Peak of Eternal Light
|
Bruce Sterling
|
16 |
Frontier Death Song
|
Laird Barron
|
17 |
Swift, Brutal Retaliation
|
Meghan McCarron
|
18 |
The Ghosts of Christmas
|
Paul Cornell
|
19 |
Astrophilia
|
Carrie Vaughn
|
20 |
Liberty's Daughter
|
Naomi Kritzer
|
21 |
Old Paint
|
Megan Lindholm
|
22 |
Goddess of Mercy
|
Bruce Sterling
|
23 |
The Thorn and the Blossom: A Two-Sided Love Story
|
Theodora Goss
|
24 |
One Little Room an Everywhere
|
K. J. Parker
|
25 |
Mating Habits of the Late Cretaceous
|
Dale Bailey
|
26 |
Electrica
|
Sean McMullen
|
27 |
The Grinnell Method
|
Molly Gloss
|
28 |
The Bernoulli War
|
Gord Sellar
|
29 |
Declaration
|
James Patrick Kelly
|
30 |
No Decent Patrimony
|
Elizabeth Bear
|
31 |
The Color Least Used by Nature
|
Ted Kosmatka
|
|
Best Short Story |
1 |
Immersion
|
Aliette de Bodard
|
2 |
Mono no Aware
|
Ken Liu
|
3 |
The Deeps of the Sky
|
Elizabeth Bear
|
4 |
Mantis Wives
|
Kij Johnson
|
5 |
Elementals
|
Ursula K. Le Guin
|
6 |
Great-Grandmother in the Cellar
|
Peter S. Beagle
|
7 |
Coming of Age on Barsoom
|
Catherynne M. Valente
|
8 |
Blood Drive
|
Jeffrey Ford
|
9 |
Valedictorian
|
N. K. Jemisin
|
10 |
Scattered Along the River of Heaven
|
Aliette de Bodard
|
11 |
Two Houses
|
Kelly Link
|
12 |
Goggles (c.1910)
|
|
13 |
A Natural History of Autumn
|
Jeffrey Ford
|
14 |
Tyche and the Ants
|
Hannu Rajaniemi
|
15 |
Reindeer Mountain
|
Karin Tidbeck
|
16 |
One Breath, One Stroke
|
Catherynne M. Valente
|
17 |
The Woman Who Fooled Death Five Times
|
Eleanor Arnason
|
18 |
Rebecka
(translation of Samtal med Rebecka)
|
Karin Tidbeck
|
19 |
The Water Thief
|
Alastair Reynolds
|
20 |
The Easthound
|
Nalo Hopkinson
|
21 |
Antarctica Starts Here
|
Paul McAuley
|
22 |
About Fairies
|
Pat Murphy
|
23 |
The Education of a Witch
|
Ellen Klages
|
24 |
England Under the White Witch
|
Theodora Goss
|
25 |
Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream
|
Maria Dahvana Headley
|
26 |
Blue Lace Agate
|
Sarah Monette
|
27 |
Bricks, Sticks, Straw
|
Gwyneth Jones
|
28 |
Nightside on Callisto
|
Linda Nagata
|
29 |
Macy Minnot's Last Christmas on Dione, Ring Racing, Fiddler's Green, the Potter's Garden
|
Paul McAuley
|
30 |
In Autotelia
|
M. John Harrison
|
31 |
A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight
(translation of )
|
Xia Jia
|
32 |
The Memcordist
|
Lavie Tidhar
|
33 |
A Bead of Jasper, Four Small Stones
|
Genevieve Valentine
|
|
Best Collection |
1 |
Shoggoths in Bloom
|
Elizabeth Bear
|
2 |
The Best of Kage Baker
|
Kage Baker
|
3 |
At the Mouth of the River of Bees
|
Kij Johnson
|
4 |
Outer Space, Inner Lands
|
Ursula K. Le Guin
|
4 |
Where on Earth
|
Ursula K. Le Guin
|
5 |
The Dragon Griaule
|
Lucius Shepard
|
6 |
The Pottawatomie Giant and Other Stories
|
Andy Duncan
|
7 |
Jagannath: Stories
|
Karin Tidbeck
|
8 |
Fountain of Age: Stories
|
Nancy Kress
|
9 |
Crackpot Palace
|
Jeffrey Ford
|
10 |
We Are for the Dark: 1987-90
|
Robert Silverberg
|
11 |
Dream Castles: The Early Jack Vance, Volume Two
|
Jack Vance
|
12 |
Wool Omnibus
|
Hugh Howey
|
13 |
Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart
|
|
14 |
The Woman Who Married a Cloud: Collected Stories
|
Jonathan Carroll
|
15 |
Cracklescape
|
Margo Lanagan
|
16 |
Last and First Contacts
|
Stephen Baxter
|
17 |
Wonders of the Invisible World
|
Patricia A. McKillip
|
18 |
Errantry: Strange Stories
|
Elizabeth Hand
|
19 |
Eater-of-Bone and Other Novellas
|
Robert Reed
|
20 |
Permeable Borders
|
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
|
21 |
The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy: A Michael Bishop Retrospective
|
Michael Bishop
|
22 |
Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley
|
Robert Sheckley
|
23 |
Other Seasons: The Best of Neal Barrett, Jr.
|
Neal Barrett, Jr.
|
24 |
Sorry Please Thank You
|
Charles Yu
|
25 |
Ancient, Ancient
|
Kiini Ibura Salaam
|
25 |
Moscow But Dreaming
|
Ekaterina Sedia
|
27 |
Birds and Birthdays
|
Christopher Barzak
|
28 |
Earth and Air: Tales of Elemental Creatures
|
Peter Dickinson
|
29 |
Remember Why You Fear Me: The Best Dark Fiction of Robert Shearman
|
Robert Shearman
|
30 |
The Janus Tree and Other Stories
|
Glen Hirshberg
|
|
Best Anthology |
1 |
Edge of Infinity
|
Jonathan Strahan
|
2 |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection
|
Gardner Dozois
|
3 |
After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia
|
Ellen Datlow
and
Terri Windling
|
4 |
The Future Is Japanese
|
Nick Mamatas
and
Masumi Washington
|
5 |
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six
|
Jonathan Strahan
|
6 |
Year's Best SF 17
|
Kathryn Cramer
and
David G. Hartwell
|
7 |
Steampunk Revolution
|
Ann VanderMeer
|
8 |
Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron
|
Jonathan Strahan
|
9 |
Epic: Legends of Fantasy
|
John Joseph Adams
|
10 |
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four
|
Ellen Datlow
|
11 |
Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction
|
Brit Mandelo
|
12 |
Rip-Off!
|
Gardner Dozois
|
13 |
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2012
|
Rich Horton
|
14 |
Solaris Rising 1.5: An Exclusive Ebook of New Science Fiction
|
Ian Whates
|
15 |
Digital Rapture: The Singularity Anthology
|
James Patrick Kelly
and
John Kessel
|
16 |
AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers
|
Ivor W. Hartmann
|
17 |
The Sword & Sorcery Anthology
|
David G. Hartwell
and
Jacob Weisman
|
18 |
Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic
|
Chris N. Brown
and
Eduardo Jiménez Mayo
|
19 |
The Century's Best Horror Fiction 1901-1950
|
John Pelan
|
19 |
The Century's Best Horror Fiction 1951-2000
|
John Pelan
|
20 |
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: 2012 Edition
|
Paula Guran
|
21 |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume 23
|
Stephen Jones
|
22 |
Ishtar
|
Amanda Pillar
and
K. V. Taylor
|
23 |
Breaking the Bow: Speculative Fiction Inspired by the Ramayana
|
Anil Menon
and
Vandana Singh
|
24 |
Rock on: The Greatest Hits of Science Fiction & Fantasy
|
Paula Guran
|
25 |
Robots: The Recent A. I.
|
Rich Horton
and
Sean Wallace
|
|
Best Magazine |
1 |
Asimov's Science Fiction - 2012
|
Sheila Williams
|
2 |
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction - 2012
|
Gordon Van Gelder
|
3 |
Tor.com - 2012
|
Liz Gorinsky
and
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
|
3 |
Tor.com - 2012
|
Liz Gorinsky
|
3 |
Tor.com - 2012
|
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
|
3 |
Tor.com - 2012
|
James R. Frenkel
|
3 |
Tor.com - 2012
|
Beth Potter
|
3 |
Tor.com - 2012
|
David G. Hartwell
|
3 |
Tor.com - 2012
|
Kat Brzozowski
|
3 |
Tor.com - 2012
|
Janine O'Malley
|
3 |
Tor.com - 2012
|
Holly West
|
3 |
Tor.com - 2012
|
Elizabeth Szabla
|
3 |
Tor.com - 2012
|
Noa Wheeler
|
3 |
Tor.com - 2012
|
Nancy Mercado
|
3 |
Tor.com - 2012
|
Kate Jacobs
|
3 |
Tor.com - 2012
|
Joy Peskin
|
3 |
Tor.com - 2012
|
Melissa Ann Singer
|
4 |
Clarkesworld Magazine - 2012
|
Neil Clarke
|
5 |
Subterranean Online - 2012
|
William Schafer
|
6 |
Analog Science Fiction and Fact - 2012
|
Stanley Schmidt
|
7 |
Lightspeed - 2012
|
John Joseph Adams
|
8 |
Strange Horizons - 2012
|
Niall Harrison
|
9 |
SF Signal
|
uncredited
|
10 |
Interzone - 2012
|
Andy Cox
and
Andy Hedgecock
|
10 |
Interzone - 2012
|
Andy Cox
|
11 |
Apex Magazine - 2012
|
Lynne M. Thomas
|
12 |
The New York Review of Science Fiction - 2012
|
David G. Hartwell
and
Kevin J. Maroney
|
13 |
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - 2012
|
Scott H. Andrews
|
14 ⓘThe Locus Poll results list this as number 14 for best magazine. However, the rules state that eligible works must be published in 2012 and there were no issues with a 2012 cover date. |
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
|
uncredited
|
15 |
Ansible - 2012
|
David Langford
|
16 |
Cemetery Dance - 2012
|
Richard Chizmar
|
17 |
Weird Tales - 2012
|
Ann VanderMeer
|
17 |
Weird Tales - 2012
|
Marvin Kaye
|
18 |
SF Site
|
uncredited
|
|
Best Non-Fiction |
1 |
Distrust That Particular Flavor
|
William Gibson
|
2 |
Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010
|
Damien Broderick
and
Paul Di Filippo
|
3 |
Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing
|
Neal Stephenson
|
4 |
The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature
|
Edward James
and
Farah Mendlesohn
|
5 |
An Exile on Planet Earth: Articles and Reflections
|
Brian Aldiss
|
6 |
We Wuz Pushed: On Joanna Russ and Radical Truth-telling
|
Brit Mandelo
|
7 |
London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction
|
Allan Kausch
and
Michael Moorcock
|
8 |
On Conan Doyle: or, The Whole Art of Storytelling
|
Michael Dirda
|
9 |
Angela Carter: New Critical Readings
|
Sonya Andermahr
and
Lawrence Phillips
|
10 |
As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary PreHistory of Virtual Reality
|
Michael Saler
|
11 |
Astounding Wonder: Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar America
|
John Cheng
|
|
Best Art Book |
1 |
Spectrum 19: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art
|
Arnie Fenner
and
Cathy Fenner
|
2 |
Steampunk: An Illustrated History of Fantastical Fiction, Fanciful Film and Other Victorian Visions
|
Brian J. Robb
|
3 |
The Art of the Hobbit
|
Wayne G. Hammond
and
Christina Scull
and
J. R. R. Tolkien
|
4 |
Trolls
|
Brian Froud
and
Wendy Froud
|
5 |
Tarzan: The Centennial Celebration
|
Scott Tracy Griffin
|
6 |
Velocity
|
Stephan Martiniere
|
7 |
The Art of the Dragon
|
J. David Spurlock
and
Patrick Wilshire
|
8 |
Star Wars Art: Illustration
|
Eric Klopfer
|
9 |
Frank Reade: Adventures in the Age of Invention
|
Anina Bennett
and
Paul Guinan
|
10 |
Spectrum Fantastic Art Live!
|
Brom
and
Phil Hale
and
Android Jones
and
Iain McCaig
and
Mike Mignola
|
11 |
Fantasy+ 4: World's Most Imaginative Artworks
|
Vincent Zhao
|
|
Best Editor |
1 |
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|
Ellen Datlow
|
2 |
----
|
Jonathan Strahan
|
3 |
----
|
Gardner Dozois
|
4 |
----
|
John Joseph Adams
|
5 |
----
|
Ann VanderMeer
and
Jeff VanderMeer
|
6 |
----
|
David G. Hartwell
|
7 |
----
|
Sheila Williams
|
8 |
----
|
Gordon Van Gelder
|
9 |
----
|
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
|
10 |
----
|
Lou Anders
|
11 |
----
|
Neil Clarke
|
12 |
----
|
Stanley Schmidt
|
13 |
----
|
Gavin Grant
and
Kelly Link
|
14 |
----
|
Terri Windling
|
15 |
----
|
Liz Gorinsky
|
16 |
----
|
William Schafer
|
17 |
----
|
Betsy Wollheim
|
18 |
----
|
Peter Crowther
|
19 |
----
|
Beth Meacham
|
20 |
----
|
Lynne M. Thomas
|
21 |
----
|
Martin H. Greenberg
|
22 |
----
|
Toni Weisskopf
|
23 |
----
|
Stephen Jones
|
24 |
----
|
Shawna McCarthy
|
25 |
----
|
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
|
26 |
----
|
Ginjer Buchanan
|
27 |
----
|
Alisa Krasnostein
|
28 |
----
|
Sharyn November
|
29 |
----
|
Betsy Mitchell
|
|
Best Publisher/Imprint |
1 |
Tor
|
|
2 |
Subterranean Press
|
|
3 |
Orbit
|
|
4 |
Baen Books
|
|
5 |
Angry Robot
|
|
6 |
Night Shade Books
|
|
7 |
Small Beer Press
|
|
8 |
DAW Books
|
|
9 |
Gollancz
|
|
10 |
Ace
|
|
11 |
Pyr
|
|
12 |
Del Rey Books
|
|
13 |
PS Publishing
|
|
14 |
Tachyon
|
|
15 |
NESFA Press
|
|
16 |
Roc
|
|
17 |
ChiZine Publications
|
|
18 |
St. Martin's
|
|
19 |
HarperVoyager
|
|
20 |
Twelfth Planet Press
|
|
21 |
Prime
|
|
22 |
Solaris
|
|
23 |
Aqueduct Press
|
|
24 |
Haffner Press
|
|
25 |
Haikasoru
|
|
|
Best Artist |
1 |
----
|
Michael Whelan
|
2 |
----
|
John Picacio
|
3 |
----
|
Stephan Martiniere
|
4 |
----
|
Shaun Tan
|
5 |
----
|
Donato Giancola
|
6 |
----
|
Charles Vess
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7 |
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Bob Eggleton
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8 |
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Kinuko Y. Craft
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9 |
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Daniel Dos Santos
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10 |
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Frank Frazetta
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11 |
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Dave McKean
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12 |
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Phil Foglio
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13 |
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Leo Dillon
and
Diane Dillon
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14 |
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Vincent Chong
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15 |
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J. K. Potter
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16 |
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Jim Burns
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17 |
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Vincent Di Fate
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17 |
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John Jude Palencar
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19 |
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Don Maitz
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20 |
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Thomas Canty
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21 |
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Boris Vallejo
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22 |
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Todd Lockwood
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23 |
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Julie Bell
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24 |
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Michael Kaluta
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25 |
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Frank Wu
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26 |
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Brom
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27 |
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David Cherry
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28 |
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Yoshitaka Amano
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